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JADM350 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 KNOWLEDGE/POWER
DYNAMIC

For our
first discussion you will need to analyze the following question: How does the knowledge/power dynamic relate
to crime and justice research?

A
significant part of a discussion approach is the interaction between you and
your fellow classmates as you explore, discuss and try to come to terms with
new concepts and how they relate to our study of criminal justice research
methods. So the requirements for your
discussion are as follows”

DISCUSSION
REQUIREMENTS:

You are
expected to log in and participate in the discussion activities at least every
other day, which is necessary if you are to meaningfully interact on discussion
issues presented in class. This “every other day” requirement may be
appropriately interpreted as 3 days per week.

You are
expected to “fully participate” in the discussion. This means that,
in addition to posting a response to the topics presented, you are expected to
respond to comments from your fellow students, and questions from me.

DQ2 KNOWLEDGE/POWER
DYNAMIC IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH

Access the
DeVry library and use the Research Help link. Find EBSCOHost and watch the
video tutorial on conducting a Basic Search in the EBSCOHost database. Use the
knowledge you’ve gained from watching this video and conduct a search for
articles from scholarly journals using this topic. Share with your peers some
of the key words/search terms you used to access these articles. Which terms
were most helpful and enabled you to find articles that discussed the
knowledge/power dynamic in criminal justice research?

JADM350 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 QUANTITATIVE
VERSUS QUALITATIVE

What are
the main differences in designing quantitative versus qualitative research?

DISCUSSION
REQUIREMENTS:

You are
expected to log in and participate in the discussion activities at least every
other day, which is necessary if you are to meaningfully interact on discussion
issues presented in class. This “every other day” requirement may be
appropriately interpreted as 3 days per week.

You are
expected to “fully participate” in the discussion. This means that,
in addition to posting a response to the topics presented, you are expected to
respond to comments from your fellow students, and questions from me.

DQ2 JUSTIFICATION
OF METHODS

Review the
Blood Spatter Analysis (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
video and the table with the analysis details from the Assignments page this
week.

When
investigating a crime scene, what types of quantitative data would you want to
identify, and what type of qualitative data would be helpful in solving a
crime? Share your analysis with your peers and critique their analysis.

DISCUSSION
REQUIREMENTS:

You are
expected to log in and participate in the discussion activities at least every
other day, which is necessary if you are to meaningfully interact on discussion
issues presented in class. This “every other day” requirement may be
appropriately interpreted as 3 days per week.

You are
expected to “fully participate” in the discussion. This means that,
in addition to posting a response to the topics presented, you are expected to
respond to comments from your fellow students, and questions from me.

JADM350 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 SAMPLING
TECHNIQUES—HIDDEN POPULATIONS

Do you have
access to any hidden population that is involved in some sort of deviant or
criminal activity? If not, provide a hypothetical hidden population that you
would be interested in researching.
Explain why you would want to do research on this particular
population, and what you would want to try
and learn from that research.

DISCUSSION
REQUIREMENTS:

You are
expected to log in and participate in the discussion activities at least every
other day, which is necessary if you are to meaningfully interact on discussion
issues presented in class. This “every other day” requirement may be
appropriately interpreted as 3 days per week.

You are
expected to “fully participate” in the discussion. This means that,
in addition to posting a response to the topics presented, you are expected to
respond to comments from your fellow students, and questions from me.

DQ2 SAMPLING
TECHNIQUES—TECHNIQUES

Think about
the hidden population you’ve identified. Choose one of the following research
methodologies and describe for your peers how you would set up a means to study
this group. (Cluster sampling; quantitative; qualitative; mixed methods; stratified
sampling; systematic sampling.) Discuss why you believe this methodology would
work well in studying your hidden population.

DISCUSSION
REQUIREMENTS:

You are
expected to log in and participate in the discussion activities at least every
other day, which is necessary if you are to meaningfully interact on discussion
issues presented in class. This “every other day” requirement may be
appropriately interpreted as 3 days per week.

You are
expected to “fully participate” in the discussion. This means that,
in addition to posting a response to the topics presented, you are expected to
respond to comments from your fellow students, and questions from me.

JADM350 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 Deciding
How to Research

You are the
Shift Lt. in charge of a DUI task force for your small department. This is a
very specialized and expensive component of your department’s efforts to reduce
driving under the influence of either drugs or alcohol, and you have been told
to research the success of your task force for the past 6 months and to present
these findings to the Chief and Deputy Chief at the next Command Briefing
scheduled for this coming Friday. Your task force consists of 12 mobile units,
each with an officer having specialized training, two K9 units, and the 6-month
span from June 1 through 12/31 of this past year. To research this, you will
have to resort to sorting through the tickets written during that time frame
for details and you can use daily/weekly/monthly staff reports for overall
statistics.

You must
post at least three times each week. Explain your experiment by day 3 (your
main posting) of this class week. Then on day 4, you will go to any fellow
class student and critique their experiment on the grounds of internal and
external validity, while suggesting ways to improve the design and validity of
their experiment. Last, your third posting (you are welcome to post more) will
be in response to the critique made of your initial posting by the classmate
who is immediately before you in the alphabet.

DQ2 Real-World
Complications

Given the
sample in topic 1, what real-world complications could you see in being able to
perform the DUI research listed above, and as that Shift Lieutenant, what
systems or procedures would you implement to ensure your follow-up report was
more accurately and meaningfully created? To validate your conclusion about
real-world complications, you might want to do a quick library search to locate
studies done concerning DUI research. What complications did those researchers
discuss?

DISCUSSION
REQUIREMENTS:

You are
expected to log in and participate in the discussion activities at least every
other day, which is necessary if you are to meaningfully interact on discussion
issues presented in class. This “every other day” requirement may be
appropriately interpreted as 3 days per week.

You are
expected to “fully participate” in the discussion. This means that,
in addition to posting a response to the topics presented, you are expected to
respond to comments from your fellow students, and questions from me.

JADM350 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 MEDIA
USE OF STATISTICS

Look for,
or brainstorm for a few examples of the use of statistics by the media. For
example, advertising on the Internet and in newspapers, magazines, television,
and radio. These statistics should all relate to some aspect of criminal
justice. How many examples showing the use of the statistics by the media can
you find? Provide at least three examples and summarize them. Your examples
should be specific and detailed. If your example comes from a newspaper or
magazine article, provide the source.

DQ2 MEDIA
DISTORTION

Are
statistics likely to confuse people or distort information? Provide at least
two specific examples where the media used statistics where you believe that
the information was confusing and distorted. What information do think should
have been provided? If your example comes from a newspaper or magazine article,
provide the source.

JADM350 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 ETHNOGRAPHIC
FIELD RESEARCH

Come up
with what you believe to be an interesting crime and justice ethnography based
on whatever field of criminal justice that most interests you. You can use an
idea that takes advantage of your existing contacts or one that would require
you to make new contacts. Identify two or three issues that you believe would
be interesting to study given this ethnography.

How would
you gain entry into the field site?

Be sure to
comment on two of your classmates posts and their ethnographic approach.

DQ2 ETHNOGRAPHIC
FIELD RESEARCH DIFFICULTIES

What
difficulties might you encounter in gaining the trust and cooperation of your
research subjects? What effect(s) would that possibly have on your research?

Be sure to
comment on what two of your classmates identify as possible difficulties to
their research, and provide feedback.

JADM350 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Week 7 Discussion

DQ1 RESEARCH
TRENDS—SIGNIFICANCE

Think of
crime and justice research trends that have been covered in your textbook or
use a real-life example you can think of. Examples can include mixed methods
research, international crime research, and human rights issues and research.

Discuss the
following: Which trend in crime and justice research do you think is the most
significant to the field of crime and justice? Why?

DQ2 WHAT
DOES YOUR RESEARCH TELL YOU ABOUT YOUR TOPIC OF INTEREST?

Based on
what you have identified as an area of interest in response to question number
1, search any library database and find an article in a peer-reviewed journal
that addresses your topic. Summarize the article and tell your peers why you
believe this is a critical issue in criminal justice.